#GAMES FOR POWER MAC G5 MAC OS X#
#GAMES FOR POWER MAC G5 MAC#

Support: The warranty is one year for parts and labor.Performance: SYSmark 2004 Office Productivity: N/A SYSmark 2004 Internet Content Creation: N/A.Multimedia: Music: 87 Photos: 87 Video: 70 Gaming: 69.But most users with recent-vintage G5 machines (especially dual-2.0GHz models) don't need to jump on this upgrade. Graphics pros and media outlets that need the fastest available speed will want to move to the new configuration. With a 16-millisecond pixel response rate, the Cinema Display is perfect for displaying video content and even playing 3D games.

#GAMES FOR POWER MAC G5 MAC#

The power button on the Cinema Display controls the PowerMac's power functions, so you don't have to stoop down to wake up your Mac (or put it to sleep).

The display's power/video/FireWire/USB 2.0 cable is a nice touch: A shared cable connects to the PowerMac G5, feeding the built-in USB 2.0 hub and the FireWire 400 hub on the back of the Cinema Display. The monitor has the same balanced 'foot' design as the new iMac G5, and supports an optional VESA mount for wall or suspension-arm mounting. The smaller bezel helps 'blend' images together if you are lucky enough to be using two displays side-by-side. The monitor's bezel is much thinner than on previous Cinema Displays, and matches the silver coloring of the Power Mac G5 perfectly. At 1,920-by-1,200 native resolution, there isn't much out there that can't be displayed at 100 percent on this monitor.

The 23-inch Cinema HD Display ($1,999 additional) that Apple sent with our review unit is gorgeous: bright, sharp, and extremely high-resolution.

#GAMES FOR POWER MAC G5 MAC OS X#

With a dual-drive configuration, you can setup the drives for software RAID through Mac OS X and gain some performance in your video-editing tasks. If you're considering the PowerMac G5 as a serious video workstation, we highly recommend the dual 250GB SATA drive upgrade, which costs $425 extra. The 160GB SATA hard drive included has a lot of space, but not quite as much as the optional 250GB drive (only a $100 upgrade). The GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL is available as a $450 upgrade. Sure, this is a high-end 256MB card that until recently was the best of its brand, but today the ATI Radeon X800XT and nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra are the tops. Our bundle came with the ATI Radeon 9800XT graphics card. There is also room to configure the PowerMac G5 upwards. Adobe Photoshop tasks run faster than ever, to the point where they're almost instantaneous with our standard 58MB test file. The new Power Mac G5's performance is an improvement on the dual 2.0-GHz model's. The Apple design team again took aesthetics into account while putting together the latest PowerMac G5: If you look through the front mesh of the tower while the system is in operation, the CPU cooling fans seem to spin in slow motion, like the languidly turning wall-mounted fans in the shadows of a film noir. There are separate air channels for the CPUs, the memory and cards, and the hard drives. And the Power Mac G5 is still a case study in intelligent cable and airflow management. The heat sinks are passive, with a dedicated fan blowing cool air over each radiator, one per processor. The 2.5-GHz G5 processors use a new heat-pipe system that uses thermally conductive liquid to carry heat from the processor surface to heat-dissipating fins, much like a car's radiator and coolant system. Now, all Power Macs are, including the entry-level 1.8-GHz model. Last year, only the highest-end Power Macs were dual-processor. And Apple's brilliant new Cinema Displays (a 23-inch in our bundle) knocked our socks off. Chief among them are dual 2.5-GHz G5 processors-a noticeable step up from the 2.0-GHz processors of the previous top-end Mac. Though the latest Power Mac G5's sleek, perforated tower doesn't look much different from previous models, the new system has a few new tricks under its hood.

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